Eagle » Wed Oct 20, 2021 11:27 am wrote:Naby was left for dead very easily for the 1st goal but I think he's been harshly criticised for the 2nd.
We are scoring more goals this season but we've looked more vulnerable to the counter attack. I think both of these are down to the fact that Gini isn't here anymore. He was criticised for not getting enough assists and goals but he was so diligent and intelligent around covering spaces left by fullbacks and other midfielders. He was an in game problem solver and a best friend to our CBs and DM. We play a 6 and two 8s and most of our defensive issues this year have come from the two 8s not doing their jobs very well when we lose the ball. If they both go and press and then don't follow runners when the press is beaten then we'll keep getting problems. Something for Klopp and his coaching staff to work on between games.
Good point about Gini. We've looked iffy at the back pretty much all season, just before the international break we played City and Brentford, Brentford put 3 past us and gave us real trouble, everyone could see their equaliser coming, we were under real pressure at the back, as for the City game they were carving us open pretty much at will particularly in that first half, Foden v Milner was an obvious mis-match but it wasn't just down the right were we were stretched, Bernardo Silva, KDB et al seemed to take it in turns to breeze past our midfielders like they weren't there.
Naby didn't play a single minute of either of those games, it wasn't him the likes of Bernardo Silva were waltzing past, our defensive issues run much deeper than him, though saying that he obviously didn't cover himself in glory defensively last night.